Short selling : finding uncommon short ideas

Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Framework to Finding Short Ideas -- 1. Due Diligence in Short Selling -- 2. Leveraged Businesses: The Upside and Downside -- 3. Structural Issues in Industries -- 4. Recipes for Cooked Books: Accounting Misstatements and Shenanigans -- 5. The World Is Going to End -- Part II: How Successful Investors and Analysts Think -- 6. Value Investing -- 7. Activist Investing -- 8. Papa Bear: Coattailing Marquee Investors or Betting Against Them? -- 9. Off Wall Street: Two Decades of Successful Shorting